Some Clever Coder. . .

[Hittman]

Some clever coder could make a nice bit of income if they wrote a piece of software that would create RSS feeds for podcasts.

I'm very surprised there isn't much of anything out there. Feed For All does a decent job to start, but it's not specific to podcasts, and every bit of information about the enclosure has to be added by hand. At forty bucks, it's easier to just copy an old show and make the changes manually.

Here are the features I'd like to see (and be willing to pay for.)

- Load any existing RSS feed. Some RSS programs will only accept XML files they've created, which is pretty dumb.

- Be able to load files that have errors in them, allowing them to be corrected. Some RSS creators just break when there's an error in the file.

- Add all the file info automatically. The user should be able to select a file, and have the software plug in the date and size.

- By default the pubdate should be the file date, or the current date and time (user selectable.)

- Add all the iTunes nonsense whenever it's appropriate.


And if you price it at twenty bucks, even the people who can hand code it will say "it's worth it."

[jbisjim]

dircaster.php does most of that already.
I used it for a while. do a search on this board and you will find it.

[vox_monitor]

the problem, it seems to me, is that it really needs to be part of a cms, usually a blog.

Because you want the feedmaker to pull the details from a database, you know?

[Hittman]

I just installed it, and it will save me some hand coding, (I can cut and past the pub date and enclosure lines) but it doesn't handle the descriptions well.